Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, for appearing.
I'll begin with Minister Hedderson.
I'll say at the outset that where I agree with you, and I think everyone around this table and perhaps even those at the table with you agree with you, is that prior to 2006 NAFO did not function well. I think that point has been made here.
Where I'm confused is this. It's my understanding that the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador was well involved in the negotiations of this amended convention. It was certainly involved in the current talks, as well, in Norway. It was supportive of the direction that these amendments were taking. Now you're appearing before us—and we've seen a recent letter from your premier and so on—taking quite a different view of the results of these negotiations. Can you clarify for this committee the chronology of all that? Is it not true that Newfoundland and Labrador has had two positions on this amended convention?